frunjer:cgraves67: cgraves67: It's a good thing the farmer stopped. Old guy bits really clogs up the augers.

clog

/stupid subject-verb agreement

Combines don't have augers. Augers are used to drill holes not harvest corn. Stupid urbanite!

Take a look at this.

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howcombineharvesterswork.html

Scroll down to the section called Inside a Combine Harvester. Look at item 4. Admittedly, they use the incorrect term augur, which is a priest that looks at bird guts, but an auger is any type of screw designed to move something, a screw conveyor, if you will. You can use them to move water, grain, or lots of other things. Your definition of auger, as a hole-maker, is also correct, but not the only definition.